Within hours of the Maratha agitation concluding at the CIDCO Exhibition Centre on Tuesday, the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) swung into action with a massive overnight clean-up drive that restored normalcy before sunrise. With thousands of protestors camping at the venue and nearby areas in Vashi, civic officials had anticipated a huge sanitation challenge.

Acting on the instructions of NMMC Commissioner Kailas Shinde, over 100 sanitation workers, officers, and inspectors worked through the night until 4 am, armed with mechanised sweeping machines, sewer jetting equipment, and garbage transport vehicles. By dawn, they had collected and transported 21 tonnes of waste to the Turbhe processing facility. The clean-up covered not just the exhibition centre but also adjoining stretches of Sector 30 Vashi, the Tunga Hotel area, and parts of the Sion-Panvel highway.